Best Run Away Poems
Below are the all-time best Run Away poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of run away poems written by PoetrySoup members
Run Away With MeCome run way with me to brink of make believe
Where landscape undulates to rhythm of my dreams
Come run away with me to gypsy’s golden glen
To...
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Categories:
run away, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Universe of YouI have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.
I have always heard the...
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Categories:
run away, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form:
Couplet
A Desperate Housewife - In Limerick FormA desperate housewife I knew
had such mundane housework to do.
Being so tired of it,
she decided to quit.
Then off to Las Vegas she flew.
Having always been...
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Categories:
run away, adventure, wife,
Form:
Limerick
Have a Lovely DayHave a lovely day
Pushed now to the limit by a never ending whisper
Lost behind the meaning of a question I can’t hear
Dreaming of a day...
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Categories:
run away, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Woman In ChainsWoman in Chains
(What Man Would Abide It?)
Women throughout centuries – the softer sex.
I picture them subservient since what feels like time primordial!
What man would abide
being...
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Categories:
run away, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Silent SinsThere is a proverbial hypocrisy to
'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'
when sinister perversions,
lurk behind closed doors,
contained inside four walls.
What is a...
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Categories:
run away, abuse, betrayal, sin,
Form:
Free verse
Train TracksWe used to ride our bikes,
the ones without brakes,
along rusty tracks,
trying to keep up with trains
but like life,
they moved too fast,
we always got left behind.
Even...
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Categories:
run away, abuse, analogy, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
The Rest Is SilenceI left her behind
emaciated
I left her
dying
I left her
I left her
I wanted to die there with her
there in the desert
where I left my mother
there where the...
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Categories:
run away, history, remembrance day,
Form:
Free verse
Home Is Where the Heart Is
"Home is Where the Heart Is"
Savages
behind closed doors
Civilised
but wild animals
sharpening claws
Humanity
tries to escape itself
can’t run away
from finding
"TRUE HOME"
behind closed doors
Now opening...
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Categories:
run away, freedom, imagery, life,
Form:
Free verse
Justice - a ParableA woman gave birth to a son
named Justice; he had little fun.
If he wanted to play,
his mama would say,
“But only when Justice is done!”
Poor Justice,...
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Categories:
run away, humor,
Form:
Limerick
SquirrelsSpunky squirrels gather up nuts,
stashing them safely out of view.
In no hurry to stuff their guts,
spunky squirrels gather up nuts.
With bulging cheeks and furry butts,...
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Categories:
run away, beautiful, imagery, imagination, nature,
Form:
Triolet
My Spirit Animal Is a ZooBeware the morning tiger
Before his first coffee
Look out for the afternoon lizard:
Ectotherm on the sidewalk...
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Categories:
run away, animal, tiger,
Form:
Free verse
MaturityAs I sit by the window and look out towards the sun,
A half of me says stay, while the other half says run.
I know it's...
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Categories:
run away, childhood, me, life, me,
Form:
Free verse
Die Another Day“Die Another Day”
“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”
“The Place is a hazardous...
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Categories:
run away, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
The Poetic JusticeAs legend has it, there lived Bai Balkhash, a rich man
In the North regions of the then Soviet Kazakhstan
Had a beautiful daughter Ili who was...
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Categories:
run away, romance,
Form:
Burlesque